Proverbs at Internet Archive: Scottish

Here's another book in the Hippocrene proverb series (no editor's name supplied): Scottish Proverbs.

The illustrations are by Shona Grant; here's the one used for the book cover: Better be deid than oot o' fashion.

The book has only the Scottish versions of the proverbs, which isn't too difficult to figure out for English speakers, but just in case, there's a glossary in the back:

Here are some of my favorites:

• Ne'er rode ne'er fell.
• Better sma' fish than nae fish.
• Illy-willy cows should have short horns.
• Even the langest day will hae an end.
• I theekit ma hoose in the guide weather.
• Ne'er show your teeth unless you can bite.
• A young saint may prove an old devil.
• A misty morning may be a clear day.
• A mitten'd cat ne'er was a good hunter.
• There is mony a true tale tauld in jest.
• Every man wishes the water to his ain mill.
• Forbid a fool a thing an' that he'll do.
• Tak time when time is, for time will awa'.
• He that gets, forgets, but he that wants, thinks on.
• It is weel said, but wha will bell the cat?
• Enough's as good as a feast for a starvin' man.
• Be happy while you're livin, for you're a lang time deid.
• He has ae face to God an' anither to the de'il.
• A day to coem seems longer than a year that's gone.
• What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Here's one I made into a slide in a World Proverbs slideshow:

So, have fun with these... and don't mind if the spellchecker protests the Scottish spelling!

Scottish Proverbs